Katherine Johnson at the Kitchen Table
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Katherine Johnson - I Respect and Trust This Person More Than I Trust a Computer
Katherine Johnson was responsible for doing the trajectory calculations to calculate the flight path of John Glenn's orbit around the Earth. In 1969, when we finally launched people to the moon for the first time, and we think this is the moment where we felt like we really won the Cold War because we got humans to the moon before the Russians did,. Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory that was necessary to sync up the Apollo lunar lander with the command and service module that stays in orbit around the moon.
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